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- O GIVE thanks unto the Lord, call upon His name, make known His doings among the peoples!
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- Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; meditate on and talk of all His marvelous deeds and devoutly praise them.
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- Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those rejoice who seek and require the Lord [as their indispensable necessity].
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- Seek, inquire of and for the Lord, and crave Him and His strength (His might and inflexibility to temptation); seek and require His face and His presence [continually] evermore.
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- [Earnestly] remember the marvelous deeds that He has done, His miracles and wonders, the judgments and sentences which He pronounced [upon His enemies, as in Egypt]. [Ps. 78:43-51.]
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- O you offspring of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob, His chosen ones,
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- He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
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- He is [earnestly] mindful of His covenant and forever it is imprinted on His heart, the word which He commanded and established to a thousand generations,
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- The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His sworn promise to Isaac, [Luke 1:72, 73.]
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- Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
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- Saying, Unto you will I give the land of Canaan as your measured portion, possession, and inheritance.
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- When they were but a few men in number, in fact, very few, and were temporary residents and strangers in it,
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- When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people,
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- He allowed no man to do them wrong; in fact, He reproved kings for their sakes, [Gen. 12:17; 20:3-7.]
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- Saying, Touch not My anointed, and do My prophets no harm. [I Chron. 16:8-22.]
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- Moreover, He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt]; He cut off every source of bread. [Gen. 41:54.]
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- He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold as a servant. [Gen. 45:5; 50:20, 21.]
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- His feet they hurt with fetters; he was laid in chains of iron and his soul entered into the iron,
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- Until his word [to his cruel brothers] came true, until the word of the Lord tried and tested him.
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- The king sent and loosed him, even the ruler of the peoples, and let him go free.
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- He made Joseph lord of his house and ruler of all his substance, [Gen. 41:40.]
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- To bind his princes at his pleasure and teach his elders wisdom.
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- Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. [Gen. 46:6.]
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- There [the Lord] greatly increased His people and made them stronger than their oppressors.
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- He turned the hearts [of the Egyptians] to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.
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- He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.
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- They showed His signs among them, wonders and miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).
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- He sent [thick] darkness and made the land dark, and they [God's two servants] rebelled not against His word. [Exod. 10:22; Ps. 99:7.]
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- He turned [Egypt's] waters into blood and caused their fish to die. [Exod. 7:20, 21.]
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- Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, even in the chambers of their kings. [Exod. 8:6.]
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- He spoke, and there came swarms of beetles and flies and mosquitoes and lice in all their borders. [Exod. 8:17, 24.]
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- He gave them hail for rain, with lightning like flaming fire in their land. [Exod. 9:23, 25.]
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- He smote their vines also and their fig trees and broke the [ice-laden] trees of their borders. [Ps. 78:47.]
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- He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, and that without number, [Exod. 10:4, 13, 14.]
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- And ate up all the vegetation in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground.
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- He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the beginning and chief substance of all their strength. [Exod. 12:29; Ps. 78:51.]
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- He brought [Israel] forth also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. [Exod. 12:35.]
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- Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen upon the people. [Exod. 12:33.]
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- The Lord spread a cloud for a covering [by day], and a fire to give light in the night. [Exod. 13:21.]
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- [The Israelites] asked, and He brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. [Exod. 16:12-15.]
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- He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it ran in the dry places like a river. [Exod. 17:6; Num. 20:11.]
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- For He [earnestly] remembered His holy word and promise to Abraham His servant. [Gen. 15:14.]
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- And He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen ones with gladness and singing,
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- And gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan], and they reaped the fruits of those peoples' labor, [Deut. 6:10, 11.]
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- That they might observe His statutes and keep His laws [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them]. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
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